The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1887-12-15
Manitowof pilot.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER Is, 1887.
MISSING LINKS.

MISSING Inns.
When the smokestack of the Allen
town thread mill is completed il
will be 227 feet high, the loftiest in
the United States.
1t is reported from Butte City, NJ t.
| that a tweIve-year-o,d bootblack there
has $500 which he has earned deposited
| in one of the city banks.
Thomas Perry walked from Terre
Haute to Disco. distance of five
miles, in fifty-eight minutes on his 63d
birthday He made the last mile in
eight minutes.
Elias Wayman of York State is 104
| years old, and has used tobacco for
| ninety-four years. He fears it will be
the death of him yet if he cannot break
off the habit.
lone more sign of the economics OF
progress" says the New York Times,
s.is that it is contemplated to make
| wax candles out Of sugar-cane. Ii
yields cerosine, which, has high
melting point.
Thoughtless and inconsiderate
| Bostonians are laughing at the En-.
glish young woman who recently, after
hearing much praise of butternuts,
said: 'sAt what season of the year
are doughnuts ripe?"
The Philadelphia Ledger says that
card playing is a social craze in Lon
don, and that thousands of young
ladies in the city are familiar with
the mysteries of the Jackpot poker
and other like utensils. :"
A Boston man who is manufacturer
of raspberry jam says that no rasp-
berrys are used in making it. What Is
| used, it appears, are tomatoes, glucose
and hayseed, and little prepared
raspberry flavor.
The Hastings GazeHe-Joarnal
sports a corncob pipe upon which
potato has been grated. 1t
is considered the rarest jewel in the
shop, as the pipe reduces the tuber to 3
pasting consistency.
1t is reported that the English church
establishment receives yearly in tithes
about $4,000, 900. Of this $15, 900, 00C
goes for salaries of clergymen and the
| remainder goes to hospitals, schools,
church buildings, and the like.
At Burg Hill, Ohio, Charles Smith
shot blue heron at his carp pond,
and found forty-seven fish in its
stomach. From the appearance OF
the carp they had just been swallowed,
and constituted only one meal for the
bird.
Under a recent decision of the North
| Carolina Supreme Court Judge in
| that state has issued a warrant for the
| arrest of a man for committing an
assault with a deadly weapon, "to.
wit, certain vicious and large bull.
dog"
Archbishop Heiss of Milwaukee says
| that of the 100000 Roman catholics
of the United States 1000, 900 are Ger.
mans. OF the eleven archbishops and
| sixty bishops only one archbishop, DR..
Heiss himself, and eleven bishops are
| German.
Capt. A. K Ham, a 49er, died re-
Gently in San Jose, Cal, worth about
$2,000,000. He was a bachelor, and
occupied room in his livery stable.
| His heirs are two brothers, one of
whom lives in Oakland and the other
in Santa Cruz.
A woman in red dress was walk
inc in the streets of Zacatecas, Mexico,
when a bull, attracted by the scarlet
| color rushed at her and tossed her sky
high. She alighted on the ground, on
her hustle, on the other side of wall.
and without injury.
While a log was being sawed through
in North Michigan lumber camp the
saw cut in two a large moccasin snake
| that was encased in the heart of the
wood. There was no opening at
either end of the log, and the wonder
is how the snake got there.
St. Joseph, Mo-, is expecting to have
centerarian. r. Ussleton Compton,
who was ninety-nine years old in May
last, has lived there for forty-seven
years, and his mental and bodily vigor
warrant the belief that he will reach
his one-hundredth birthday.
The Santa Cruz Surf tells Of an i'm
mense sea turtle which was caught
near Capitola the other day. II
measured eight feet from the tip OF
its nose to the tip of its tail and its
weight is guessed by local guesser to
be about one thousand pounds.
A silk dress coat has reached Boston
and made a tremendous sensation
among the dudes. 1t is really a
handsome garment, made of heavy,
corded. lusterless silk, which, at little
| distance, looks like the richest of black
broadcloth. 1t is a Paris fashion.
A Belmont county (Ohio) farmer re.
joices in heterogeneous collection OF
freaks, consisting of pig whose feet
are split so as to give it the appearance
of having toes, another with three
ears, a cat with one ear growing
wrong side out, and boy with three
thumbs.
When a settler in the Northwest
territory wants to 60 back to Ontario
to be married the Canadian Pacific
railroad sells him matrimonial ticket
at the usual rate, and on presenting
the return coupon and a marriage Ger.
titicate he is entitled to free transpor.
tation for his bride.
The Santa Rosa Republican tells OF
an indulgent mother in that town
| whose 14-year-old son is confined in
the county jail, and who sent him a
bible, bunch of cigarettes, piece OF
bologna sausage, and copy of the
Police Gazette, in order to hew off the
ragged edges of prison life.
There is hotel in Arkansas where
the rooms are designated by the name:
of cities and states. Here, from,
show this gentleman to New Orleans
take pitcher of ice water to Mime
sofa, see what that man in Boston
wants and make fire in Chicago" is {
sample of what one hears in the office
P. G. Handy, the well-known Plain
well (Mich.) fruit-grower and con
ductor of singing schools. is the owner
of a violin which he claims is $50 year.
old. Mr.. Handy has owned the in
strument for forty-three years. 1t wa.
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